A red chalk figure drawing of maximum expansiveness — a figure kneeling or squatting with both arms extended outward and upward, one to the left and one reaching toward the upper right. This is the most dynamically open pose in the red chalk series: the body below is compact and low (kneeling or squatting), but both arms reach outward and upward as far as they can go, creating a composition that expands in every direction simultaneously.
The arms are the composition's primary element: the left arm extends horizontally, the hand barely indicated; the right arm curves upward toward the upper right corner, also reaching, also extending. Between and below these two arms, the body provides the anchor — the rounded hip visible at the right, the feet at the lower corners.
The figure's face is barely described — just the profile suggestion at the neck-head junction. Sidney's attention was on the arms and the pose, not the individual. The body as action, the body in the act of reaching.
The red chalk on the warm cream paper gives the reaching figure its characteristic warmth — this body is alive, reaching toward something, the gesture neither joyful nor desperate but simply physical, the fact of arms that can go this far.